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Configuring two wireless routers with one SSID (network name) at home for free roaming

Scott Hanselman wrote:

When we moved into the new house and setup the new home office a few years back, I posted about wiring the house for wired Cat-6 ethernet. I’ve never liked or trusted wireless, so when we started building the place it was always in the plan to wire everything and focus on speed.

Fast forward to 2010 and the Wii is wireless, the iPad and iPhones are wireless, the Windows Phone 7 is wireless, my wife’s laptop is wireless, and it’s all slow. It’s slow because I’m using the standard Verizon (now Frontier) FIOS wireless router to cover all corners of a two story house. Over the last few weeks it’s been especially irritating as the wife has moved her laptop into another room and I’ve started watching streaming Netflix from the corner of a room I’d never had a wireless device in.

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